Brit Tory leader Cameron 'could be a direct descendant of Moses'.Byline: ANI London, July 10 (ANI): A Jewish scholar has suggested that Britain's Conservative Party leader David Cameroon could be a descendant of Moses, as his paternal great-great-grandfather was a Jewish immigrant. According to The Times, Yaakov Wise, a research fellow at the University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a university located in Manchester, England. With over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes, more than 10,000 staff and an annual income of nearly £600 million it is the largest single-site University in the United Kingdom and receives Centre for Jewish Studies, has traced the politician's ancestry back to Elijah Levita, an eminent 16th-century Jewish scholar. Cameron's great-great-grandfather, Emile Levita, arrived in Britain from Germany in the 1850s and rose swiftly in the world of commerce, gaining citizenship in 1871 and becoming director of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (or simply The Chartered Bank) was a bank founded in London in 1851/1853 by James Wilson following the grant of a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria. It opened its first branches in 1858 in Calcutta and Bombay and then Shanghai. , based in London. Levita married out of the faith and adopted the trappings of an English gentleman, owning a grouse grouse, common name for a game bird of the colder parts of the Northern Hemisphere. There are about 18 species. Grouse are henlike terrestrial birds, protectively plumaged in shades of red, brown, and gray. moor in Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. and sending his four sons to Eton. His son Arthur, a stockbroker, married Steffie Cooper, a relative of King George III, and Cameron's relationship to the monarchy survives to this day - he is a fifth cousin of the Queen, once removed. Dr Wise has traced the family's ancestral line back to Elijah Levita, 1469-1549, a central figure in the "Christian Hebraist" movement, who pioneered Hebrew and Yiddish linguistic research at the time of the Tudors. The name Levita is the Latin form of Levite, meaning a Jew descended from the tribe of Levi, the son of Jacob, and one of the original 12 tribes of Israel. Dr Wise acknowledges, however, that Mr Cameron's connection to Moses, who led his people out of slavery in Egypt, is less certain, describing his thesis as historical whimsy whim·sy also whim·sey n. pl. whim·sies also whim·seys 1. An odd or fanciful idea; a whim. 2. A quaint or fanciful quality: stories full of whimsy. . (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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